English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

English Grammar
English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

Change the following from active to passive: They have been neglecting maintenance of the archives for years.


Options:

  1. Maintenance of the archives had been neglected by them for years.
  2. Maintenance of the archives is being neglected by them for years.
  3. Maintenance of the archives was being neglected by them for years.
  4. Maintenance of the archives has been being neglected by them for years.

Right Answer: Maintenance of the archives has been being neglected by them for years.

The active sentence is in the present perfect continuous tense, shown by 'have been neglecting'. To convert any tense into the passive voice the object becomes the subject and the verb takes the form of 'be' appropriate to that tense followed by the past participle. For the present perfect continuous the required structure is 'has/have been being' plus the past participle. Since the new subject 'maintenance' is singular, the correct form is 'has been being neglected'. The other options shift the sentence into the past perfect, present continuous or past continuous, changing the tense. Hence option four is correct.

This question is part of English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice, which has 15 practice questions with answers.

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